I just downloaded the spore patch and it's pretty good and it gave me some ideas for the next patch,
1.there should be a flora creator.(i was thinking about a planet creator but that would probably ruin the game)
2.some new parts (for creature,building,vehicle and spaceship) and be able to colour parts individually,like on the vehicle creator.
3.Could there be a male and female version of your creature.
4.more outfits for the outfitter.
well that all i can think of,why don't you post some of your suggestions or tell me what you think.

These sound great but it sounds more like what would come in an expansion pack (I have thought we should have male and female forms... many species they vary quite greatly...).

Patches are generally for gradual changes. Adding a whole new editor and adding sexes is a completely different ball park.

Sounds good - but yeah, content - at least with the way EA does it, isn't in patches (great amounts of content anyway)

Here's hoping for a cool expansion pack!

Sam

what i want in the next patch

1-most importantly i want when you choose each of you building designs in your city planner that each colony you place to automatically know what buildings you want, ofcourse if you want to change them you are free to in the colony planner, its just annoying and time consuming to constanly have to choose the buildings you want 9 times outta 10 i always use the same buildings unless i get bored so its just a pain to have to keep telling the game what buildings i want, same thing goes for the vehicles too

2- when i blow up a planet i want it to make a pretty debris ring around the sun like in old videos of spore, now im not sure if it does or not but im pretty sure it doesnt because i havent seen any rings where planets used to be after ive blown them up

3-some new space phenomina to explore and maybe have some of the phenomina be claimable i dunno collect tourist income or some thing lol

4- yes the plant creator but i have a feeling they are holding that one out till the first expansion pack with the underwater phase that should have never been pulled from the game-dont hand me it would be more cell stage, i love the cell stage and the idea of an under water 3d mix of cell and creature is kind of appealing to me, instead of skeletons you can collect more meteor rock to get new under water parts

5-i think that durring the creature phase you should get dna points for eating as well this way you can have more dna points to create better creatures one dna point each time you take a bite or each piece of fruit you eat

6-new style filter maybe that one i saw in the making of spore video where you get a unique filter depending on what eyes your creature is using making it almost like your seeing the world thru the eyes of your creature

7-something for an expansion pack, i want to be able to get out of my ship like in the one video where will shows how you can get out of your ship and interact with say a tribal species or a civ and they will treat you as a god or attack you lol i would love to interact in that way durring space its a missing piece that could have made spore that much better! the hologram isnt the same thing, this way you can put to use the landing gear that you created for the game thats absolutely useless,

8-maybe a planetary shield generator, something you can buy and plop down on one of your planets to hold off attacks untill you can get to the planet and chase off those pesky pirates , you can make them damageable so that if you ignore it long enough they can still punch thru the shields and start terrorizing your planet

9-special ships you can purchase that will automatically trade spice for you so you dont have to ferry spice all day and really get a chance to explore the galaxy

Now what happens if missing features that Wright was talking about being in the game only one or two months ago, yet didn't deliver, decide to show up in a form you have to purchase as an expansion?

If that does happen, that's skirting along just outside the legal boundaries of false advertising. Willful representation of features in the original game, followed by removal and attachment of a second payment to receive them. It's consciously dishonest.

So I ask: how would you feel about that? Would you still trust Maxis? Would you trust Wright? Would you agree to pay despite the potential aftertaste of exploitation?

I love the creative mind that Will Wright has and his approach to game design but he works for the most abusive, aggressive, cutthroat, borderline-piratical publisher in the entire electronic gaming world, bar none. People who love money above all else and will seek it by any means they can get away with. So... let's keep in mind that they would break your computer with their software and ransom it back to you for a price, if they were allowed to... and let's not trust them not to screw us in the most deliberate and ruthless ways possible, including making you buy the game once and then buy the missing pieces of it again at a later date; the pieces they made you believe you'd be buying the first time.

i only want one thing from the next patch:
Fix all the bugs and glitches

i dont give a crap about people whining over something trivial in their game and want a fix. what about us people who bought this game and are plagued with annoying bugs and glitches? they better get this fixed soon or theyre gonna lose some players for being over looked and not cared about.

more game options
not so many nests close to each other in creature phase
transports in civ phase
doubleclick autoplaces item in space phase on colony builder
some more missions, maybe include some diplomatic dillemas
chance that allies prevent pirate attack or eco desaster if you also help them


no more cheat codes (dont waste time on that)

we need water creaturs

Guys, please learn the difference between patch and expansion.

Patch = bug fixes, TWEAKS to gameplay, some small, easy to code additions, etc.
Expansion = lot of new stuff that changes/adds to the gameplay, new mechanics, parts, other wild stuff you see in peoples ideas.

Do not mix up those two and hope that you will see some huge changes in the patches, they are there to improove your game based on your feedback, they can change the gameplay significantly by tweaking the amount of attacks per hour, aggressiveness of opponents and such stuff but it won't get you another creator, another stage or something BIG like that.

Keep it realistic and ask for little things in patch threads and post your grand ideas in threads about future expansions of the game.

Cheers!

well the thred master said a flora editor as a patch and maxis said that a flora editor would be a patch so im guessing that your wrong? also technicly its supposed to be there but wasn't implemented right away due to the rush (eg "this animal cannot survive in water" and "xxx plant made by maxis") but a patch as in deffinition is anything added on not through pay and new engine add on , since both a water creature editor and flora editor would not use a new engine add on and not aquired through pay they would be patches or add-ons

lailak wrote:

So I ask: how would you feel about that? Would you still trust Maxis? Would you trust Wright? Would you agree to pay despite the potential aftertaste of exploitation?

I do NOT trust maxis, i would NOT trust Will Wright and I will most certainly NOT pay after what they did. Also, I dont really want another patch, I just want them to fix the crap they did with this patch and then I dont want to hear about this patches that completily destroyed my game.

A lot more creature parts would be nice.

Change the way the creature creator handles DNA points, charging only a trivial amount of DNA for parts that give the same bonus!!! ARRRRGGG!!!

Other than that, fix the darn sound and graphic loading bugs. I haven't crashed into them that often (and hope I continue not to).

Give people options on what resolution they'd like cooked models' textures to be... Better yet, in the sporepedia, let the models of vehicle and building show the textures they were painted with instead of just the fuzzy cooked model.

That's all... For now!

Maxis said that the Flora Editor will come in a patch...? O_O Where?!

Hmmm, a choice for the next patch would be to fix some of the graphics issues.
I am using an onboard x3500 graphics chip from intel and it does not show the Lava textures at all(static)

The some of the gas planet textures don't come out correctly either.

A REALLY cool thing would be to be able to rename planets and solar systems.